House. But we begin with catherine. First to get exerpts of the memo. Thanks. The white house sent a letter to the House Intelligence Committee confirming the president used his authority as commander and chief to declassify the records without changing. The memo paints a troubling picture. The 4page republican staff memo makes the case that the secret National Security court was kept in the dark by the fbi and Justice Department when they sought a surveillance warrant for Trump Campaign aide carter page. The court was never told the former british spy was paid by democrats to put together the trump dossier. Christopher steele admited to bruce ohr his feelings against candidate and said, quote ohr was demoted over his contacts with steele and simpson whose Opposition Research fun fusion gps directed the trump project. Bank records show ohrs wife worked for fusion gps and began investigating trump in may 2016. Republican investigators said the court was never told about the dossiers pol
His positions on one of the most divisive subjects for both his supporters and critics. Not far from the white house, conservatives are being warned by the head of the the gun loby that gun rights opponents are using the Florida School massacre to go after their weapons. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts starts us off with another day looking for answers. Good evening. It was the second meeting President Trump convened at the white house on the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School shooting, meeting with state and local officials today to hear suggestions and float a few ideas of his own. How we can make our schools safer. President trump build the meetings as listing sessions but on one issue, the president and far more talking than listening. We have to harden our schools, not soften them up. A gun free zone to a killer or somebody that wants to be a killer, thats like going in for the ice cream. Thats like here i am. Take me. Calling gun free zones nonsense, President Trump pus
The American Public needs to see this because we need to know was an entire investigation of a president based on an accusation from a Campaign Opposition research . If thats what were basing an investigation on and people are talking about on the democrat side trying to topple a president over a campaign research, thats a big problem. Even james comey weighing in the former f. B. I. Director tweeting the following. American history shows that in the long run weasels and liars never hold the field so long as good people stand up. Not a lot of schools or streets named for joe mccarthy. John roberts is live at the white house with the latest. John, there are a lot of opinions out there about what should happen with this memo. No shortage of opinions in washington the charm of this place. Were waiting to hear whether the memo and accompanying letter that states the president has no objection to the declassification of this memo will be transmitted to the Intelligence Committee. Sources ha
You are watching fox and friends first on friday morning. Thank you for joining us. Lets get to that fox news alert, demons made him do it. That is with a teenager who confessed to gunning down 17 people at his former high school is reportedly telling police. He is being held without bail now formally charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder. Rob schmidt has new details about his troubled past. Reporter right outside thy school we are getting a picture of a sick young man, a 19yearold with an obsession with guns, violence, killing animals, a young man that confessed that he committed this crime telling police there were demons in his head that made him do this. His adoptive mother died in the fall. Police think this contributed to this shocking act. He was expelled from his high school after an altercation at the school. Three days later he would buy the weapon he would use in this horrible attack we saw on wednesday. We also yesterday got a timeline of how this went down. It star
Showing strength in the u. S. Economy. Im going to start with that. It was a crazy day. Investors selling everything. Stocks, bonds, commodities. Dow on track for its worst week since early 2016. So if you look at the strength in the labor market and wage growth, normally investors would react positively. However, some are worried that the fed will raise rates sooner rather than later. So u. S. Players hired more people in january than economists had forecast. 200,000 jobs added. 20,000 more than expected. Workers in manufacturing, construction, they can thank the global opportunity for new opportunities. Leisure, hospitality and healthcare also getting people on board. January marking the 88th straight month of job growth. So thats the longest streak continuous streak on record. Unemployment Holding Steady at a 17year low of 4. 1 for the fourth straight month. Wage growth is what were going to zero in on. It had been sluggish for a decade and shot up quickly in january. 2. 9 . So that